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AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN, writing more than fifty years ago, says that “the literary history of this country requires separate and minute accounts of the rise of science in Oxford, in Cambridge, and in the north of England, which should severally end (if it might be no later) with Wallis, Newton, and Thomas Simpson.”1 To what extent this long-felt want has been supplied by other publications, we cannot tell; but we know of none readily accessible to the student of mathematical history, and therefore hail with satisfaction the appearance of the small octavo volume which is the subject of our review.
A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge.
By W. W. Rouse Ball. (Cambridge: University Press, 1889.)
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Cambridge Mathematics. Nature 40, 458–459 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040458a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040458a0
